Set forth below is the fourth quarter 2012 real estate professional and home owner Pennsylvania home prices survey data along with the fourth quarter 2012 real estate professional survey data and the fourth quarter 2012 national home prices survey data: (click on each question to see complete results):

Set forth below is the fourth quarter 2012 real estate professional and home owner Georgia home prices survey data along with the fourth quarter 2012 national home prices survey data: (click on each question to see complete results):

Set forth below is the fourth quarter 2012 real estate professional and homeowner Florida home prices survey data along with the third quarter 2012 real estate professional survey data and the fourth quarter 2011 national home prices survey data: (click on each question to see complete results):

Set forth below is the fourth quarter 2012 real estate professional and home owner California home prices survey data along with the third quarter 2012 real estate professional survey data and the fourth quarter 2011 national home prices survey data: (click on each question to see complete results):

Sixty-five percent of real estate professionals expect home values to increase in the next six months, up from 51 percent from last quarter; Sixty-one percent disapprove of Obama’s performance as President

Real estate professionals continue to be more optimistic about the direction of home values than homeowners. Sixty-five percent of real estate professionals expect home values to increase in the next six months, up from 51 percent last quarter and up from 15 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011. Thirty-nine percent of homeowners expect home values to increase in the next six months, up from 34 percent last quarter.

Eleven percent of real estate professionals expect home values to decrease in the next six months, unchanged from last quarter. Twenty percent of homeowners expect home values to decrease in the next six months, also unchanged from last quarter.

Twenty-four percent of real estate professionals and 41 percent of homeowners believe home values will stay the same in the next six months.

Seventy-nine percent of real estate professionals and 62 percent of homeowners think home values will increase in the next two years. In contrast, just 11 percent of real estate professionals and 17 percent of home owners think home values will decrease in the next two years. Ten percent of real estate professionals and 31 percent of homeowners think home values will stay the same in the next two years.

According to surveyed agents and brokers, seventy-five percent of homeowners believe their homes are worth more than the recommended agent listing price. In contrast, sixty-three percent of home buyers believe homes are overpriced.

“We are seeing a continued increase in optimism about the direction of home prices,” said Louis Cammarosano, General Manager of HomeGain. “Real estate agents expect the recent pick up in the real estate market to continue in the coming two years.”

Top 10 States Where Real Estate Agents and Homeowners Think Home Prices Will Go Up in the Next Six Months:Top 10 States Where Real Estate Agents and Homeowners Think Home Prices Will Go Down In the Next Six Months: Forty-six percent of agents and brokers surveyed indicated that they “strongly disapproved” and 15 percent “somewhat disapproved” of Barack Obama’s performance as President, earning him a 61 percent disapproval rating, a decrease of six percent in the disapproval rating of agents and brokers surveyed in the third quarter of 2012. In a year-over-year comparison with the fourth quarter of 2011, the President had a 70 percent disapproval rating among agents and brokers.

Thirty-nine percent of homeowners “strongly disapproved” and 11 percent “somewhat disapproved” of the President’s performance, earning him a 50 percent disapproval rating. The President had a 56 percent disapproval rating last quarter among surveyed homeowners with 45 percent “strongly disapproving.” The Rasmussen Daily Presidential Approval Index taken during the same period as the HomeGain Fourth Quarter 2012 Home Values Survey indicated that President’s average approval rating was 55 percent and the average disapproval rating was 44 percent, with an average of 30 percent “strongly approving” of his performance and an average of 34 percent “strongly disapproving” of his performance.

Top 10 States Where Real Estate Agents and Homeowners Approve of Barack Obama’s Performance as President:Top 10 States Where Real Estate Agents and Homeowners Disapprove of Barack Obama’s Performance as President: The survey was conducted from November 27 – December 6, 2012.

Set forth below are the results of the fourth quarter 2012 and third quarter 2012 national home values surveys as well as the results of the fourth quarter 2011 survey. Also set forth below for selected questions is the national home owner response data for the fourth quarter of 2012. Click on each question to see complete results:

Set forth below is the third quarter 2012 real estate professional and home owner North Carolina home prices survey data along with the first quarter 2012 data and third quarter 2011 real estate professional survey data: (click on each question to see complete results):

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